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Boats found in Denmark, but the Anglo Saxons probably had similar boats.

Articles, Videos, etc.

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About the Book The most powerful dynasty behind the throne of Anglo-Saxon England, shedding new light on events such as the Battle of Hastings. Book Synopsis Godwin and his family dominated English politics for almost half a century, establishing themselves as the most influential and powerful dynasty in Anglo-Saxon England. At the height of its power, it took a matter of weeks for the dynasty to fall. Earl Godwin established himself as Cnut's most senior advisor and continued that ro
Women Of Power In Anglo-saxon England, livre de Annie Whitehead (Couverture souple) | www.chapters.indigo.ca

Books

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Conroi de Vey

Websites, Reenactment Groups

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Winchester Old Minster (as of 980) on the right, New Minster (early 10th century) on the left, both pulled down by the 12th century.
Roman bricks and stones certainly came in handy for the construction of The Chapel of St Peter-on-the- Wall, Bradwell-on-Sea, Essex, in 654 AD by St Cedd. One of the earliest churches in Britain.

Architecture, stone

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Cutaway reconstruction of C11th farmhouse at Eckweek, Somerset. © Avon Archaeology

Architecture, wood

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Bone, Antler, Horn, Ivory

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Amazon.com: Early Anglo-Saxon Buckets: A Corpus of Alloy and Iron-Bound, Stave-Built Vessels (Oxford University School of Archaeology Monograph) (9780947816643): J. M. Cook: Books
Elite status "bucket" associated with the female burial at Deel.
6th-7th century, Cambridgeshire. 8 1/2" (not sure which dimension). Bronze fittings for a wooden bucket (reconstructed).

Buckets

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Street House Anglo-Saxon cemetery - Wikipedia

Burial

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42r, Gospels, Royal MS 1 E VI, British Library, Early 9th century-1st quarter of the 11th century

Calligraphy

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These are two coins from the ninth century, part of a Viking hoard found by a prospector in Watlington. Note the coin on the left bears Ceolwulf's name (CEOLVVLF), and the one on the right bears Alfred's (AELFRED).

Coins

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The British Museum Cabinet 47; 'Food for the Great Hall'. Photographs courtesy of Lindsay Kerr. Display cabinet main text. Wulfheodenas Facebook.

Food

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Beautiful Byzantine bowls from Sutton Hoo.
Silver in the Mound 1 burial Sutton Hoo. It was probably made in East Mediterranean workshops. The damaged fluted bowl (top) was 40 cm in diameter, it has a flat out-turned rim with a beaded edge. The central motif shows the head of a woman with piled-up hair wearing a diadem. Each bowl is decorated with an equal-armed cross springing from a central roundel. This cross-motif should not be read as having a Christian meaning

Foreign objects

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Galloway hoard

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Geteld (tent)

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ARTICLE
ARTICLE: How Anglo Saxon Glass Bowers Brought Colour to the Dark Ages.
Glass Buckland Dover, Kent

Glass

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For kids

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Anglo-Saxon Poetry

Language, runes

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An 11th-century Old English swarm charm to protect swarming bees from being stolen. Over 97 of these charms exist in medieval Europe! Settle down, victory-women, sink to earth, never be wild and fly to the woods. Be as mindful of my welfare, as is each man of border and of home
Æcerbot, Field Blessing, 11C. "Arch One, Arch One, Arch One — Earthen Mother — may the almighty, Eternal Lord, grant to you acres of growing things, of thriving things of increasing things, of strengthening things, of creatures taller, of shining abundances; and ample barley, beautiful wheat crops, and of all the grains that grow on the earth...Hale be you, mold, mankind’s mother! May you grow in God’s embrace with food much-filled for folks to use."

Literature

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MANUSCRIPT: Old English Hexateuch, Cotton MS Claudius B IV, 2nd quarter of the 11th century-2nd half of the 12th century. British Library. A few interesting, but poorly executed, pictures of costume throughout.
MANUSCRIPT Cotton MS Vespasian A I, 2nd quarter of the 8th century-c 1480, ('The Vespasian Psalter')
St Cuthbert Digitised Manuscript, early 8th century

Manuscripts

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Anglo-Saxon Map

Maps

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A reconstruction of a meeting of a late Saxon hundred court at Grimshoe mound, Grime’s Graves. These courts took their name from the administrative divisions known as hundreds, so called because they contained enough land to sustain 100 households© Historic England (illustration by Judith Dobie)

Modern depictions of life

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Saxon Lyre by roncook on Etsy

Music

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June A detail from an Anglo-Saxon calendar, showing an illustration of labourers working on the harvest.
April A detail from an Anglo-Saxon calendar, showing an illustration of a feasting scene.
January A detail from an Anglo-Saxon manuscript, showing a painted illustration of labourers ploughing the land with oxen.

Period depictions of life

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Overstone, Northamptonshire

Pottery

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Reconstructed Anglo-Saxon knives with wooden and horn handle

Reenactment, reproductions

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